Thursday, January 31, 2019

Honestly, I feel like this piece would have benefited from more editing time. I have the opposite of writer's block, and I'm trying to get it all out there, despite having little time between full-time parenting and other part-time work. There are some parts of this that I'm proud of, but I wonder if it should have been 2 stories. Maybe someday I'll come back to it. And maybe I'm being too hard on myself right now.

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

My kid's not 3 anymore, but I just reworked an old piece and published it on Medium.
When I first wrote this 6 months ago, it opened up so many IRL conversations amongst my parent friends. We really do all have these #MyKidToo stories. The culture needs to change. Quit Hitting on My 3-Year-OldHey creepy dude: quit it.

"We thought about all the cultures that favored boy babies, and wanted to offset that. Smash the patriarchy, and all that.

And
we both appreciated how, currently, it’s a lot easier to raise a female
to be whoever she wants to be (quiet or loud, wild or bookish,
beautifully embodying every contradiction). Raising males this way is
important work too, but it sounded harder, and we are lazy.

Sunday, January 20, 2019

This one’s for all the mamas (and other parents) who have built a human inside of you, and after that superhuman trick, you’ve still stood in front of a mirror and doubted that your body was as it should be."Getting Your Body Back" Post-Pregnancy on Medium (originally published in the September 2018 print issue of Raise Vegan Magazine)

Wednesday, January 9, 2019

This is a piece I wrote for a literary journalism class in college. The
assignment was to do something “out of my element,” then write about it.
Almost 13 years later, it’s still one of my favorite things I’ve ever
written. But, until now, I’ve never shared it outside of that college
class. I can see how this could possibly be offensive to some people;
that’s certainly not my intent. But I apologize in advance if that’s the
case. Enjoy!

Saturday, January 5, 2019

I just published Doing Yoga While Your Child Screams at You - Loving Your Kid vs. Loving Yourself
in P.S. I Love You on Medium."This isn’t a story of 'what to do when your kid is screaming while
you’re trying to get a moment to yourself.' Often, I’ve got the answers,
but right now I just need to write about how hard parenting is. I want
to tell you that we all have these moments, even those of us who seem
like we’ve got the whole parenting thing figured out."